The World Heritage Committee has decided to remove its "in danger" designation
from Yellowstone National Park. In a lengthy report, the committee "Urges
the State Party (the United States) to continue to report on Yellowstone's
snowmobile phase-out and other efforts to ensure that winter travel facilities
respect the protection of the Park, its visitors, and its wildlife," and "invites" the
United States "to provide to the World Heritage Centre by 1 February 2004,
existing recovery plans setting out targets and indicators for the 6 remaining
long-term management issues (mining activities outside the park, threats
to bison, threats to cutthroat trout, water quality issues, road impacts,
visitor use impacts)."

"Urges," and "invites" is the language used by the U.N. to support its
claim that it has no authority to dictate land use policy in the United States.
Nevertheless, ratification of the World Heritage Treaty obligates the United
States to comply with the " urgings and invitations" of the U.N.

It was this same committee that in 1995, placed Yellowstone on its "in
danger" list, at the urging of a group of environmental organizations, and
George Frampton, then-head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The action came after the New World Mine had spent more than $30 million
trying to comply with all the requirements of the federal government so it
could pursue an estimated $300 million mining venture, several miles outside
the park's boundaries. The mining company spent years, and a small fortune,
and had overcome all the obstacles thrown in its path by the Clinton/Gore
administration. A detailed analysis of just how the environmental organizations
conspired with the administration and the U.N. committee is
available here.

Without waiting to review the mining company's final Environmental Impact
Statement, the federal government imposed a moratorium on mining in a 19,000-acre
area around the park. The federal government stopped the mining project,
and paid $65 million to acquire most of the land.

For years, many of these same environmental organizations have been working
to implement what is called the Yellowstone to Yukon program, an effort to
link wilderness areas together from Wyoming to Alaska. This adventure has
now become the Mexico
to Yukon program.

Throughout the Clinton years, environmental organizations essentially ran
the administration: Bruce Babbitt came from the League of Conservation voters;
George Frampton came from the Wilderness Society, and more than a dozen other
executives of radical green groups filled top management positions. Yellowstone
is just one example of how environmental organizations, working through their
colleagues in the administration, worked with the United Nations to implement
the global environmental agenda.

Even when the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity was defeated in the
Senate, the Clinton administration continued to implement its provisions
through what it called its Ecosystem Management Policy. The objective is
to eventually get all land use under the control of government, and to get
all national governments under the control of the United Nations.

Many people find this idea too bizarre to take seriously. Still, the U.N.
is exercising its influence in the United States, through specific projects
such as the Yellowstone situation. Environmental organizations continue to
work through their friends in the Bush administration, and in Congress, to
advance their land use control ambitions.

The U.N. may have lifted its "in danger" designation from Yellowstone,
but it has not lessened its drive to eventually eliminate private property,
in order to "restore" the land to wilderness, while forcing people to live
in "sustainable communities," with strict, no-sprawl urban limits.

This is how society should be organized, according to the U.N., and the
radical environmental organizations that claim to be "saving" biodiversity.
Much to the chagrin of both of these institutions, the Bush administration
has not been a willing accomplice to this "wrenching" transformation of American
society.